2021-11-11
- Our student, senior Olivia Luca (double major in Spanish and Psychology) has received a $2,000 Research Support Grant from the Office of Undergraduate Research. The grant will support her project Correlating Acculturation with Bilingualism in Spanish and Romanian Speaking Communities. She will be working under the guidance of Assistant Professor ...
2021-11-11 - Our esteemed colleague Dr. Florencia Henshaw has been elected president of the Downstate IL Chapter of the AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese). Likewise, our PhD student Sara Saez-Fajardo was elected to the position of Communications/PD Coordinator. Both received 100% of the votes! Their terms...- 2021-11-07 - Our Prof. Xiomara Cervantes was interviewed by the Global Media Cultures Podcast. The podcast is created and curated by critical media studies Professor Juan Llamas-Rodriguez, faculty member at the University of Texas at Dallas. You can listen to this fascinating interview with Prof. Cervantes about immigration/migration from Central America and Mexico here: ...
2021-10-29 - Our own Dr. Florencia Henshaw has been selected as the 2021 recipient of the Excellence in Online Language Teaching Award for Higher Education, granted by ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) and CALICO (Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium). The award is meant to recognize innovation and successes in online language instruction. (...
2021-10-11 - Let's congratulate Prof. Fornoff for another outstanding achievement! The Humanities Research Institute (HRI) announced the inaugural Interseminars project, entitled "Imagining Otherwise: Speculation in the Americas," and led by our own Prof. Carolyn Fornoff in conjunction with Prof. Josue David Cisneros of the...
2021-06-14 - Our alumna Grace Maloney, will be heading to Vigo in Galicia, Spain, as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant. Grace graduated in May with a triple major in Spanish, MCB and Chemistry. She was a member of the Campus Honors Program and a James Scholar, and experienced a summer studying abroad in Chile. She was one of our outstanding majors! Congrats Grace! For more about Grace's...
2021-05-28 - Prof. Silvina Montrul has been awarded the highly competitive National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) fellowship for her project, “Analyzing and Visualizing Linguistic Variation in Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers.” Silvina is the main principal investigator but she is working in this project with two co-PIs: David...- 2021-05-14 - Our undergraduate Spanish major Rich Moraga completed an Honors Thesis under the supervision of Prof. Jill Jegerski and with Prof. Ann Abbott as second reader. His thesis is titled: "Análisis de algunos efectos de la barrera del idioma español en la calidad de la atención medica en los Estados Unidos" / "An Analysis of Some of the Effects of the Spanish Language Barrier on...
2021-05-14 - LAS has named the recipients of the prestigious Bronze Tablet award and several are our majors and minors! (Please note that other colleges have not yet released the names of their bronze Tablet winners so more of our students may be on those lists) The following Spanish majors have been awarded LAS Bronze Tablets: Taylor Nicole Kassis and Ashley Serna...- 2021-05-13 - Prof. Mariselle Meléndez has just been named LAS Alumni Distinguished Professorial Scholar by the College of LAS. Named scholars are chosen for their energy, creativity, and record of excellence in teaching and research, as well as for evidence of service and future potential. More information in this LAS news article: https://las.illinois.edu/news/2021-05-12/...
- 2021-05-13 - Prof. Xiomara Cervantes has won the Latin American Studies Association 2021 Premio Sylvia Molloy for Best Article in the Humanities (presented by the Sexualities Studies Section) for her article “Paz’s Pasivo: Thinking Mexicanness from the Bottom.” The Latin American Studies Association is the largest professional association in the world for the study...
- 2021-05-12 - Lit/cult PhD candidate Carmen Gallegos has been awarded a highly competitive Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship for AY 2021-2022. This award will allow Carmen to complete her dissertation project “Quantifying Amazonia: Ecocritical fictions during and beyond the rubber boom in Peru, Colombia, and Brazil (19th - 21st centuries),” which she...
- 2021-05-12 - Following the determination by the Campus Promotion and Tenure Committee, the Provost has recommended the promotions of both Melissa Bowles and John Karam to the rank of Full Professor, effective August 16, 2021. As stated in Provost Communication 9, the final recommendation on promotion and tenure is made by the Provost, acting...
2021-05-05 - Prof. Xiomara Cervantes has been awarded a six-month 2021 Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty. The Fellowship is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Institute for Citizens & Scholars. The fellowship allows exceptional junior faculty to pursue...
2021-05-04 - Professor Carolyn Fornoff has been awarded the 2021 LEAP (Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors) Award. This highly competitive award was created as a way to foster excellence and recognize the impact assistant professors have in the College of LAS. It is granted to faculty...